Maths Tricks Practice Worksheet
The trick (Choose a trick): × 9 → finger trick; × 4 → double double; × 10, 100, 1000 → slide and add zeros. 37, 12345679 or 111… → magic patterns; reverse and subtract → 1089. Puzzles: find the rule, the total or the leftover days, then check your answer.
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- 1.9 × 7 =
- 2.Half of 94 =
- 3.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 4 and added 5. I got 13. What was my number?
- 4.The ages of two twins add up to 22. How old is each twin?
- 5.Odd one out: which number is NOT in the 8 times table? (a) 40 (b) 16 (c) 55 (d) 64
- 6.9 × 3 = ?7 — what is the missing digit?
- 7.A piggy bank has 5 coins of ₹5 and 13 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 8.The 1st of a month is a Thursday. What day is the 28th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Thursday
- 9.Magic trick! Think of 10. Double it, add 18, halve it, then take away 10. What number do you get?
- 10.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 11.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 12.Take 523. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 7. What is that number?
- 14.32 × 4 =
- 15.3 × 9 =
- 16.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 59 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Friday (c) Sunday (d) Saturday
- 17.9 × 8 = 7? — what is the missing digit?
- 18.15 × 4 =
- 19.A piggy bank has 8 coins of ₹5 and 12 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 20.40 × 4 =
- 21.Magic trick! Think of 15. Double it, add 6, halve it, then take away 15. What number do you get?
- 22.9 × 10 =
- 23.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 9. I got 79. What was my number?
- 24.What comes next? 4, 8, 16, 32, ? (a) 64 (b) 56 (c) 65 (d) 48
- 25.9 × 4 =
- 26.1 + 3 + 5 + … + 9 =
- 27.Double 91 =
- 28.You have 9 coins. Each coin is ₹1 or ₹2, and together they make ₹14. How many ₹2 coins do you have?
- 29.Take 37 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 30.1234 × 9 + 5 =
- 31.The 4th of a month is a Monday. What day is the 14th of the same month? (a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Sunday
- 32.52 × 4 =
- 33.I thought of a number, multiplied it by 5 and added 7. I got 57. What was my number?
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 21 24 9 | 6 ? 30 | 27 12 15. What is the missing number?
- 35.9 × 4 = ?6 — what is the missing digit?
- 36.Take 825. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Half of 86 =
- 38.33 × 4 =
- 39.495 + 594 =
- 40.1234 × 8 + 4 =
Answer key
- 63
- 47
- 2
- 11
- 55
- 2
- 51
- Wednesday
- 9
- 9
- 5
- 198
- 792
- 128
- 27
- Saturday
- 2
- 60
- 64
- 160
- 3
- 90
- 14
- 64
- 36
- 25
- 182
- 5
- 27
- 11111
- Thursday
- 208
- 10
- 18
- 3
- 297
- 43
- 132
- 1089
- 9876
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